I have avoided AI (LLMS) because it didn’t seem nearly useful enough to warrant supporting these tech assholes. Is there anyway to use it locally on a normal device (16 Gb ram, 8 year old Geforce graphics, etc?). Can I just slow it down and get it to work locally?


No, and why do you want to rot your brain and/or produce more slop anyway?
Because LLMs now work better for searches than commercial search engines.
At producing misinformation.
Why would you want misinformation? It’s going to lower your productivity, because you then have to fact check everything it tells you